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This is HYSTERICAL. I do get a pang of sorrow for the poor designers…how do these Vulcan Mindmelds happen? It happens to us writers, too. You work on your book for years upon years and then finally, your unique subject matter is about to hit the world and on your pub date, everyone has a book out about, say, elephants who wear toupees. There is the picture book, The Elephant Who Wore a Toupee, the middle grade tome, My Teacher is an Elephant Who Wears a Toupee, and of course the YA, The Vampire Toupee-Wearing Elephant.

I think you should run with the elephant book idea. Toupee-wearing really is underrepresented in children’s lit. It was in Bee Wigged by Cece Bell, but the world needs more!

You have bruised my brain, but I am glad. Hope to read Marilyn’s book for more good pain.

Imagaine one Australian’s authors dismay when her book cover featuring a butterfly, the same image was used to advertise butchers!

The Grief Book
by Elizabeth Vercoe

[...] i saw this post the other day called a book-spine poem and wondered, “what in the world is a book-spine poem?” well, it’s basically where you set up book, spines out,  and read the titles as [...]

ZOMG. My thinking cap is officially on.

Glad to hear it! I’m going to post some ideas and resources soon to help lead folks down the path of nontraditionality.

i love da bokkszz read all of dem !!

Yeah, something tells me that sunflower on the cover is going to have a shiny round sticker on top of it come this time next year.

Thanks for highlighting this book! Now I just need to decide whether to include it in my Spring or Kevin Henkes units…

I know it had to be weeded, but I love the look of that Amy Carter bio. Wish I could have read it before it “went away.” Sigh.

Here is my attempt at book spine poetry.
http://marcieaf.blogspot.com/2010/03/book-spine-poetry-challenge.html

Okay – my attempts to email are failing for some reason, so here’s a link to my poem on my blog…

http://kimberlyjoypeters.blogspot.com/2010/03/celebrations-and-book-spine-poetry-my.html

Enjoy!

Hi, I just wandered over to your site and I thought I’d give this a try. Here’s my attempt:

http://chachic.livejournal.com/99207.html

I plan on doing this as one of our teen programs for Poetry Month in April–I love this and can’t wait to see what the teens come up with!

A whole new way for me to look at kids and teen books! These are so much fun and sooooo interesting.

That’s a great idea. There is something about this style that seems very well suited for kids and teens. I’d love to see the results!

I love these — I think if I got started doing these, I’d be fiddling with them all day.

Love his stuff. Another Brother looks great. Thanks for the interview!

Very talented and a nice guy to boot!

So many insights. I, for one, anticipate a big market for food books. Smell-o-vision and scratch and sniff books are so 2099.

No more Gengis Khan? Oh, how could we possibly offer a modern-day example of a leader who led invasions to consolidate other countries into his own empire with such ruthlessness?

Great weeding! I love how you included the pictures. At a new job 25 years ago, my co-workers were totally paralyzed and nervous about my weeding. So I left the book cart of weeded books for them to keep anything they wanted in collection and they realized, “Whoa, those REALLY were dogs!” Sometimes, when people really look, they get it.

did you like riteing the books? I like the books. I’m doing a book rport on rodrick rules it’s due on wedsday . could you give me an idea? I read the book but I need to tell who the auther is and tell about it.

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Dominick

I’m with you Marge. Usually you can quiet any fuss about weeded books by just having the protester take a look at them.